Category: Non-Fiction

Dear Allen Ginsberg, It was 2010 when I first found you, I was 17, homeless, brainwashed by the religious machine known as the Wesleyan Church and had been actively in the closet for 5 years. The old man working at the book shop had brought me to the section of the store on beat …

Dear White Feminism, With your fluffy pink pussy hats and meticulously crafted signs quipping about the power of vaginas and cutting puns about crooked politicians, you proliferate the media spreading a voice for “women’s rights” with buzzwords like “pay disparity” or “equality”. But something most of you, as a group, tend to forget or perhaps …

Over the past half-century civil rights in this country have taken leaps and bounds in order to make equality an obtainable goal. This by no way means that we have accomplished total equality in any way, whether it is race, sex, gender or orientation, but it is progress. Now within LGBT rights, these years alone …

Hello bloggies! Today I'd like to share my experiences over the past few months with body image and self loathing. This is not a depressing, woe is me, post I promise. My relationship with my body image has always been very rocky. It started early when I was in early double digits and chubby. …